The Magic Pudding - The Opera
| dc.contributor.author | Bowman, Calvin | |
| dc.coverage.spatial | Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne, Australia | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-12-13T22:24:41Z | |
| dc.date.created | 4/10/2013 | en_AU |
| dc.date.issued | 2013-10-04 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2024-03-03T07:17:33Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | 'The Magic Pudding - The Opera' is Victorian Opera's major commission for 2013. Norman Lindsay's classic Australian story is adapted into a libretto by Anna Goldsworthy with music by Calvin Bowman. | |
| dc.format.extent | 60 minutes, 40 performers | |
| dc.format.medium | Opera | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/72844 | |
| dc.publisher | ANU School of Music | |
| dc.rights | Research Background The task of breathing new life into that most ‘classical’ of musical genres, opera, stands as one of the most interesting, if not pressing, challenges of contemporary compositional practice; it is a particularly interesting one when the libretto is derived from a beloved work of Australian children’s literature and the target audience is both children and adults. How does one construct a lyric drama and compose in a style that is both inclusive and relevant to a contemporary Australian audience of all ages? Research Contribution This work has made successful and significant contribution to Australian opera; the work itself also explores contemporary approaches to musical characterisation, and notions of what an Australian ‘sound’ might be when writing in this archetypal historical European art form. Research Significance The Melbourne production was universally praised in the local and national press (including The Australian, The Herald Sun) and on-line, and it subsequently went on tour to Warragul, Wodonga, Mildura, Shepparton and Ballarat. One reviewer (Herald Sun) noted that ‘It's wonderful to see an opera clearly aimed at engaging children in a sometimes-inaccessible performance art, but the infectious joy of the show also saw adults who had attended without kids chortling along with the jokes’. Another (The Australian) declared that ‘Composer Calvin Bowman with librettist Anna Goldsworthy has crafted an intelligent, highly accessible piece for Victorian Opera that delivers the essence of Lindsay's boisterous story and characters’. As an act of practice-based research, simply put, it achieved exactly what it set out to do. | |
| dc.title | The Magic Pudding - The Opera | |
| dc.type | Creative work | |
| local.bibliographicCitation.placeofpublication | Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne and regional Victorian centres | |
| local.contributor.affiliation | Bowman, Calvin, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU | |
| local.contributor.authoruid | Bowman, Calvin, u5036330 | |
| local.description.embargo | 2037-12-31 | |
| local.description.notes | Imported from ARIES | |
| local.identifier.absfor | 190407 - Music Performance | |
| local.identifier.absfor | 190406 - Music Composition | |
| local.identifier.absseo | 950101 - Music | |
| local.identifier.ariespublication | U3488905xPUB3451 | |
| local.type.status | Published Version |
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